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The Hennepin County Government Center is built over 6th Street using the air rights over the street, which enabled two large plazas to be built in the city blocks.. It is connected by a tunnel to the Minneapolis City Hall, underneath 5th Street and the METRO Blue and Green lines.
It is now located on the Mississippi riverbank across Hennepin Avenue from the central Minneapolis post office. With the construction of the new Central Library for the Minneapolis Public Library system, the old gateway has become a target for developers and planners.
Minneapolis City Hall and Hennepin County Courthouse (also known as the Municipal Building), designed by Long and Kees in 1888, is the main building used by the city government of Minneapolis, as well as by Hennepin County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The structure has served as mainly local government offices since it was built, and today ...
The county government's headquarters are in downtown Minneapolis in the Hennepin County Government Center. The county oversees the Hennepin County Library system (which merged with the Minneapolis Public Library system in 2008) and Hennepin County Medical Center. The county commission also elects a chair who presides at meetings.
Susanne C. Sedgwick (June 10, 1931 – April 8, 1988) [1] was a legal aid lawyer and judge from Minnesota. [2] She was the first woman Assistant Hennepin County Attorney, the second woman municipal court judge in Minnesota, the first woman Hennepin County District Court Judge, one of the first judges appointed to the newly created Minnesota Court of Appeals, [3] [4] and a contender for the ...
Hundreds of citizens protested daily at Hennepin County Government Center and Minneapolis City Hall [16] Among political leaders opposed to Sheriff Stanek's decision were Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith, [17] U.S. Representative Keith Ellison, [18] state Representative Peggy Flanagan, [15] [19] state Representative Karen Clark, state Senator ...
These include district courts in Dakota and St. Louis Counties (since 2013), Hennepin and Olmstead Counties (since 2016), and the entirety of the Sixth Judicial District (since 2019). The rocket docket is typified by early judicial involvement, limited discovery, curtailed continuances, and the setting early trial dates.
Betty Whitlock Washburn: [18] First female judge in Hennepin County, Minnesota (1950) LaJune Johnson-Lange: [29] First African American female to serve as an Assistant Public Defender in Hennepin County, Minnesota (1978) Helen Kelly: [29] [52] [53] First female to serve as the President of the Hennepin County Bar Association (1981)